Bruce Lee will have had fewer films that have touched upon the western psyche as this one did. With it’s inimitable style (much copied since including the recent Mortal Kombat), there is some logic in the plot. Many kuhg-fu films suffer from having a barely comprehensible plot and how and why it’s characters do what they do. With this film, the plot is simple, Bruce is recruited to be an undercover operative for the police who cannot infiltrate the island hideaway of Mr. Han, to investigate the suspected criminal activities that go on there and with which there is the staging an annual fighting contest. The fight scenes are short and fast and memorable, if only for the 'cat calls' that Lee uses that are callously re-enacted by many a viewer.
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Production Year: 1977 - Action/Adventure - Director: Clint Eastwood - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring:Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Pat Hingle, William Prince, Bill McKinney
Production Year: 2002 - Action/Adventure - Director: Vincenzo Natali - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring:Lucy Liu, David Hewlett, Anne Marie Scheffler, Joseph Scoren, Matthew Sharp, Jeremy Northam
Production Year: 1996 - Action/Adventure - Director: Tom Clegg - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over - Starring:Daragh O'Malley, Oliver Cotton, Jason Durr, Sean Bean, Allie Byrne
Production Year: 1995 - Action/Adventure - Director: Tom Clegg - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over - Starring:Sean Bean, Daragh O'Malley, Allie Byrne, Oliver Cotton, Emily Mortimer, Michael Cochrane
Advantages: The final Bruce Lee film, an opportunity to see the man at his peak Disadvantages: The final Bruce Lee film, and a sense of what might have been had he lived, some pretty brutal violence
Advantages: The majectic Bruce in action, generally entertaining Disadvantages: poor story, bad acting, grainy colour, average sound, last proper Bruce Lee film
Advantages: martial arts sequences, one of Bruce Lee's best films Disadvantages: Cheesy script, could have been better for the timid anti-oriental producers
Aug 15th, 2000
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